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Over the Hedge

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Original title

Over the Hedge

Year

2006

Running time

84 min.

Country

United States

Director

Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick

Screenwriter

Len Blum, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton, Karey Kirkpatrick. Comic: Michael Fry, T. Lewis

Cast

Music

Rupert Gregson-Williams

Cinematography

Animation

Producer

DreamWorks Animation, Pacific Data Images (PDI)

Genre

Animation. Kids. Comedy | Based on a Comic

Movie Groups

DreamWorks Animation (Films)

Synopsis

When RJ the raccoon (Bruce Willis) is caught pilfering VINCENT the bear’s mountainous pile of treasured goodies – junk food stored for his post-hibernation feast - he desperately negotiates for his life, promising Vincent the impossible: to replace everything within a week.

Meanwhile, the bucolic life of a group of innocent forest dwellers is shattered when they awake from their hibernation to discover their forest has been invaded by a horrifying alien presence: the ‘burbs’! They stare out in shock at a spanking new subdivision where their nut trees and berry bushes used to be. Not knowing anything about humans, their neurotic and overprotective leader, VERNE the turtle, (Garry Shandling) nervously ventures into a backyard only to encounter the horrors of the suburban living: lawn sprinklers, BBQ utensils, S.U.V’s and mountain bikes.

Rankings Position

#127 Best Comic Book Movies

Awards: 2006: Annie Awards: 3 awards, including Best Direction. 8 nominations

2006: Nominated for Critics' Choice Awards: Best Animated Feature

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Critics' reviews

"Despite a sprinkling of laughs and eye-catching moments, this adaptation of a popular comicstrip reps a middling effort from the house that 'Shrek'"

Todd McCarthy: Variety
"This has to be the first children's film to weave a Grand Theft Auto joke into the script -- and like most things in the movie, it's pretty amusing."

Peter Hartlaub: SFGATE
"Kids will eat it up, while solid voice work from William Shatner and Wanda Sykes should keep this borderline-feral toon from pushing adults over the edge."

Peter Debruge: Miami Herald
"The film stays true to its characters and keeps the laughs coming in what may be the closest thing in spirit to the old Warner Bros. Looney Tunes to hit the screen in years"

Chris Kaltenbach: Baltimore Sun
"If they were still making Looney Tunes, they'd look a lot like 'Over the Hedge'"

New York Post
"Its chipper, sneering outsider's look at suburban sprawl and conformity isn't going to change the world, but it's still self-aware enough to be reasonably smart."

Tasha Robinson: AV Club
"Even with Levy and O'Hara and Shandling adding what they can, you can only enjoy the voices behind the critters so much when the images fall so short."

Chicago Tribune
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